There Is Still Work To Do For Office Depot, Inc. (ODP), AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU)

VASSALLUZZO JOSEPH, Chairman of the Board, bought 58,800 shares of the Office Depot, Inc. (NASDAQ:ODP) in an exchange that happened on June 4th, 2018. The stock was bought at an average price of $2.55 per share, amounting to a transaction worth $149,881. The purchase was made public in a document filed with the SEC. Additionally, Director TRAVIS NIGEL bought 10,000 shares of this stock in a transaction that took place on May 31st, 2018. The stock was bought at an average price of $2.39 per share, for a total exchange amounting to $23,941. After the transaction, the Director TRAVIS NIGEL currently holds 324,403 shares of the company’s stock, which is worth approximately $1012137.

With this stock price’s latest movement, it is now -14.75% away from its 1-year high and 56.00% higher than its 1-year low price. In the past seven days, the stock price volatility for Office Depot, Inc. was 4.58%, whereas its volatility in the past 30 days has been 5.31%. This public company’s stock also has a beta score of 2.68. When the beta value is less/more than 1, it can imply that the stock is less/more volatile than the wider stock market – a metric that traders will surely be keeping tabs on.

Office Depot, Inc. (NASDAQ:ODP) most recently published its quarterly earnings results. The firm posted $0.13 earnings per share (EPS) for the three-month period, surpassing analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.12 by $0.01. The publicly-traded organization reported revenue of $2,887.00 million for the quarter, compared to the average analyst forecast calling for $2,825.28 million, which was surpassing the analyst consensus estimate.

Shares of Office Depot, Inc. (ODP) plunged -0.64%, amounting to a loss of -$0.02 per share, to finish the regular trading session at $3.12 on Thursday 12/06/2018. After beginning the session at $3.11, shares of Office Depot, Inc. reached as high as $3.18 during the day, while hitting a 1-day low of $3.03. Trade volume reached 5,534,286 shares against this stock’s average daily volume of 5.01M shares, with a total float of 534.24M. As a consequence of the price decrease, Office Depot, Inc. now has a current market value of 1.74B.

AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE:AU) added 3.33% to its trading price by the close of the most recent session, jumping from its previous closing price of $10.50 to $10.85. This stock increased in value by 6.48% during the last 7-day period, and experienced a gain of 4.03% over the past 30-day period. In the past three months, this stock’s price grew by 39.82% , and added 26.46% to its price during the last six months of trading. AU demonstrated a yearly price gain of 11.28% , while its year-to-date (YTD) price performance has been up 6.48% . This stock’s price changed by +42.95% compared to its 90-day low, and moved down -0.64% comparing to its 90-day high price.

Have a quick look on short, medium and long-term indicators. According to the Composite Indicator, Trendspotter rated the AU stock as “Buy”. In the short-term, AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU) has a 20-day average volume of 2,598,670 shares and short-term indicators sets the AU stock as “ 100% Buy ” on average basis. In the medium-term, AU stock has a 50-Day average volume of 3,084,762 shares and medium-term indicators gave the average rating of “ 100% Buy ”, while in the long-term period the FB stock has a 100-Day average volume of 3,160,767 shares. On average, long-term indicators rated the stock as “100% Buy ”. The overall picture from all short, medium and long-term indicators sets the AU stock as “100% Buy ” on average basis.

Recently, multiple brokerages have sent out reports on AU. Citigroup, for example, Downgrade its rating on shares of AngloGold Ashanti Limited from “Neutral ” to a “ Sell”according to a research note from Tuesday November 6th, 2018. while giving the stock a “ Buy” from “Hold ” rating, as stated in a research report from Tuesday, November 7th, 2017. JP Morgan, on the other hand, Upgrade a from “Neutral ” to “ Overweight” rating on this stock in a research note dated Monday, October 16th, 2017.

In other news related to AngloGold Ashanti Limited stock, Age shares of AU held by institutions. The total number of institutions who held the AU shares was 58, according to most recent SEC filling. During the past quarter, total 54 shares held by institutions with the net change of 51 shares. In the meantime, 51 new institutions bought the shares of AngloGold Ashanti Limited for the first time and 52 institutions sold all their holdings in the company’s common stock. 49 institutions increased their investment in the AU stock and 55 institutions decreased their investment in the AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU)’s stock during the last quarter.

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